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Graduate Conferences Executive - September 2024 Start Date

Argus Media

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💼 Graduate Job

London

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Graduate Job

Business, Operations & Strategy•London

We are looking for a passionate, driven, and resourceful Graduate Conference Executive to join our expanding global team on our one-year graduate programme. This is a great opportunity for someone with no/limited Conference work experience to establish and grow their career in Conferences. You will be tasked with delivering commercially successful, well attended and critically respected conferences.
In our conference graduate programme, you will have the opportunity to work across several conference disciplines including Operations, Production, and Sales. The placements within each team will be four months long so you can develop a full understanding of what the team does and get involved with projects and the day-to-day work. You will benefit from being exposed to career opportunities which offer a rich and varied career for intellectually curious and commercially driven minds. You will need to be flexible, adaptable, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.

2:1 or higher

Bachelors

Business, Operations & Strategy

Production Responsibilities:
Using desk and telephone client research write topical and focused conference programmes reflecting the needs most pertinent to the sector
Identify the leading names in each sector and secure these bellwethers as speakers on every programme
Build and understand a market map for each conference with insight in to the value and strength of each buy-sell relationship
Understand how market developments will impact the sectors in which you operate
Operations Responsibilities:
Carry out basic venue searches
Manage speakers, sponsors and partners once they have signed up to the event, liaising closely with the Conference Producer and Sponsorship Manager
Ownership of decisions relevant to logistics: supplier choices; leading on-site team of the running of the event from start to finish; ensuring logistics are coordinated and the on-site experience runs smoothly to meet expectations
Organise and produce conference set design, signage, and networking app
Sales Responsibilities:
Strategise and collaborate with the sales team to drive conference sponsorship
Research and find new leads on specific conference campaigns
Become an expert with the company CRM system, by uploading contracts and creating sales reports
Be an active selling member of a conference, through direct engagement with customers looking to purchase meeting rooms.
Attend weekly sales meetings and deliver pipeline updates showing progress within the sales funnel

Work type

Full time

Work mode

office

Application deadline

May 10, 2024

Location

London